Servers down on a Friday night?!

Sorry, I've had a few. I just got home from the bar (pub) to see that servers are down until the AM. What the holy fu*k is so important that I can't do some drunken PvPing on a Friday night?! (morning)

I guess it's now on the main community site like right when you click "Forums" or "Community," but who seriously thought this was a good idea on a FRIDAY NIGHT? I also never saw this until the red letters flashing "Servers are going down in 15 minutes" popped up. They need to put this shit on the login screen like Blizzard, otherwise only about 25% of the population is seeing their warnings. If they did that, we might have more happy party-goers this evening.

Our upcoming maintenance for January 28th will begin from 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 6AM CST (4AM PST/7AM EST/12PM GMT/1PM CET). All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours, but could be extended.

There will be in-game notifications that the servers will be going down before maintenance begins.

In addition to this, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for eight hours on January 31st, 2012 from 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 10AM CST (8AM PST/11AM EST/4PM GMT/5PM CET). All game servers and swtor.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than eight hours, but could be extended.

For our new players, this weekly maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Sorry, I've had a few. I just got home from the bar (pub) to see that servers are down until the AM. What the holy fu*k is so important that I can't do some drunken PvPing on a Friday night?! (morning)

Perhaps a few exploits that didn't take with the last patch IE the chest looting that the gold farmers have been taking advantage of. Perhaps the 17+ people in an Ops group when it's only intended for 16 people. You know, some glaring exploits and bugs?

Just a shot in the dark though. Ya I know the 24th's patch was supposed to fix some of those, however I know of a few that it did not.

-Implemented optimizations to improve performance on Republic and Imperial Fleets.

-Significantly improved the delay when activating player abilities, particularly when in lower framerate situations. This allows for improved ability responsiveness in hectic combat situations.

-Operations will no longer allow more than 16 Operations Group members to enter concurrently.

-In Karagga’s Palace, G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator will no longer respawn more than once if players have not defeated Karagga.

-Fixed an exploit that would allow players to repeatedly loot the chest after defeating Jarg and Sorno in Karagga’s Palace.

-Fixed an issue that could cause graphical inconsistencies, which most often manifested as random screen "flickering."

If it is those 2 things being fixed, I understand. Can't have content being way easier than it should be with endless loot. Totally understandable. However, you can't tell me they didn't know about this until today and couldn't have notified us sooner and better.

If this 'maintenance' is not incredibly urgent, I'm cancelling my subscription. 3 nights a week I can play this game, and yes, I understand they *have* to have maintenance times and no matter what they piss *someone* off...but seriously, push it back ONE hour, and you will make thousands of people happy.

As for ME: I've had enough of this. It's a new game yes, they have many things to fix...but taking 6 hours, and NOTHING gets fixed? That's awesome amirite?

**EDIT** If the issues fixed are the exploits, bugs, etc. Then I do not mind at all, those things need attention. Just makes me wonder it took them 3 days to find out and implement a fix.